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Avoma vs Common Room

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Avoma

Sales Enablement

Meeting assistant, scheduler and conversation intelligence sold as separate priced layers

From
$19/month
Rated
-
Full reviewWebsite
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Common Room

Sales Enablement

Customer and community intelligence that stitches scattered person identities into one go-to-market signal feed

From
$2500/month
Rated
-
Full reviewWebsite

The short version

  • Each has a real cost: Avoma conversation Intelligence, the capability most buyers actually want, is a 29 US dollar per seat add-on rather than part of the plan, so the real cost of a working sales configuration is at least 53 per user per month against a 19 headline.; Common Room the entry plan is 2,500 US dollars a month billed annually, a floor of 30,000 a year, which excludes exactly the early-stage community-led companies whose signal is strongest.
  • They diverge on capability: Avoma covers AI meeting assistant, Common Room covers Person360 identity resolution.
  • Prices and features above were last checked on 31 August 2026.

Where they differ

Only the attributes on which Avoma and Common Room actually diverge.

Attributes where Avoma and Common Room differ
AttributeAvomaCommon Room
Starting price$19/month$2500/month
Pricing modelPer user per monthPer month by contact volume
PlatformsWeb, iOS, Android, Chrome extensionWeb, Chrome extension

Identical on both: free tier (No), user rating (Not yet rated), category (Sales Enablement).

What each one covers

Drawn from each product's published feature list. An absence here means we hold no record of it - not that the product lacks it.

Only in Avoma

  • AI meeting assistant
  • Custom note templates
  • Scheduling
  • CRM sync
  • Conversation intelligence
  • Revenue intelligence
  • Ask Avoma
  • Lead router

Only in Common Room

  • Person360 identity resolution
  • Community source ingestion
  • Signal alerts
  • Account and contact scoring
  • Website deanonymisation
  • RoomieAI research
  • Prospector
  • Intent data

What people use each for

The jobs each tool is most often brought in to do.

Avoma

  • A ten-person sales team that wants CRM-ready call notes and booking links without buying a note-taker and a scheduler separatelynot Common Room
  • A customer success group that needs every renewal conversation summarised against a fixed template so handovers stop losing contextnot Common Room
  • A founder-led sales motion where the founder wants to review call recordings for coaching but cannot justify an enterprise conversation intelligence contractnot Common Room
  • A team with many internal attendees who only need a few people recording, since viewers and collaborators do not consume paid seatsnot Common Room

Common Room

  • A developer tools company whose GitHub stars and Slack community contain buyers nobody has ever contacted because the handles do not match any CRM recordnot Avoma
  • A sales team that wants to be alerted when a former champion changes job to a target account, with the previous relationship attachednot Avoma
  • A marketing function trying to prove that community participation precedes pipeline, which requires joining community identity to opportunity datanot Avoma
  • A product-led business wanting to route free users who match the enterprise buyer profile to sellers based on both product usage and public activitynot Avoma

Where each one falls short

Documented limitations, not opinions. Every one is a constraint you would hit in normal use.

Avoma

  • Conversation Intelligence, the capability most buyers actually want, is a 29 US dollar per seat add-on rather than part of the plan, so the real cost of a working sales configuration is at least 53 per user per month against a 19 headline.
  • Seat ceilings are baked into tiers, with Startup capped at 25 seats and Organization at 100, so growth forces a plan change for headcount reasons alone rather than feature reasons.
  • Conversation intelligence on the Organization tier is explicitly limited, meaning teams discover which parts are missing after they have committed to an annual contract.
  • Deal and forecast analytics are considerably shallower than dedicated revenue intelligence platforms, so an organisation that grows into serious pipeline inspection will replace the add-on rather than expand it.
  • Summary quality depends on the note template being maintained, and teams that never configure templates get generic recaps that nobody reads, which quietly turns the subscription into an expensive transcript archive.

Common Room

  • The entry plan is 2,500 US dollars a month billed annually, a floor of 30,000 a year, which excludes exactly the early-stage community-led companies whose signal is strongest.
  • RoomieAI and Prospector run on credit allocations rather than unlimited use, so heavy research months exhaust the budget and the workflow stops until the next cycle or an upgrade.
  • Contact ceilings of 100,000 on Essential are consumed quickly by any sizeable public community, and the overage conversation is an upgrade to a quoted tier rather than an incremental charge.
  • Identity resolution is probabilistic, so wrong merges happen, and a seller who contacts the wrong person with context from someone else does more damage than no alert at all.
  • Signal volume overwhelms teams without a defined qualification rule; most implementations that fail do so because everything became an alert and sellers stopped reading them within a month.

Pricing, plan by plan

Avoma

$19/month
  • Startup$19/month
    • Up to 25 paid seats
    • Unlimited AI meeting assistant
    • Automatic recording and transcription
  • Organization$24/month
    • Up to 100 paid seats
    • Everything in Startup
    • Custom AI topics and templates
  • Enterprise$39/month
    • Minimum 10 paid seats
    • Everything in Organization
    • Org-wide Ask Avoma
  • Conversation Intelligence add-on$29/month
    • Per seat, on top of a base plan
    • Talk ratios and topic tracking
    • Keyword alerts and coaching

Common Room

$2500/month
  • Essential$2500/month
    • 5 seats
    • 100,000 contacts
    • Person360 enrichment and identity resolution
  • Advanced$undefined/year
    • 15 seats
    • 250,000 contacts
    • RoomieAI research, 7,500 credits
  • Enterprise$undefined/year
    • 30 seats
    • 750,000 contacts
    • RoomieAI research, 10,000 credits

Which should you pick?

Choose Avoma if

  • You need ai meeting assistant.
  • You work on Web, iOS, Android, Chrome extension.
  • You also want custom note templates.
Avoma review

Choose Common Room if

  • You need person360 identity resolution.
  • You work on Web, Chrome extension.
  • You also want community source ingestion.
Common Room review

Questions people ask

Is Avoma or Common Room better?
Neither clearly leads. Avoma starts at $19/month and Common Room at $2500/month, and user ratings are close enough to be indistinguishable. Choose on capability and platform support.
Which is cheaper, Avoma or Common Room?
Avoma starts at $19/month and Common Room at $2500/month.
Does Avoma or Common Room run on more platforms?
Avoma runs on Web, iOS, Android, Chrome extension. Common Room runs on Web, Chrome extension.
What is Avoma best used for?
Avoma is most often used for a ten-person sales team that wants crm-ready call notes and booking links without buying a note-taker and a scheduler separately, a customer success group that needs every renewal conversation summarised against a fixed template so handovers stop losing context, a founder-led sales motion where the founder wants to review call recordings for coaching but cannot justify an enterprise conversation intelligence contract, a team with many internal attendees who only need a few people recording, since viewers and collaborators do not consume paid seats. Of those, a ten-person sales team that wants crm-ready call notes and booking links without buying a note-taker and a scheduler separately and a customer success group that needs every renewal conversation summarised against a fixed template so handovers stop losing context are not what Common Room is typically brought in for.
What can Avoma do that Common Room cannot?
Avoma covers AI meeting assistant, Custom note templates, Scheduling, CRM sync. Common Room covers Person360 identity resolution, Community source ingestion, Signal alerts, Account and contact scoring.

Answered from the vendors’ own pages

Avoma: Is 19 US dollars the real price?

Only for the base meeting assistant on annual billing. Adding Conversation Intelligence takes it to 53 per user per month, and Revenue Intelligence takes it to 82.

Common Room: What does the entry plan actually cost?

2,500 US dollars per month billed annually, for 5 seats and 100,000 contacts. Higher tiers are quoted.

Avoma: Do I pay for people who only watch recordings?

No. Viewers and collaborators are free. Paid seats are only required for users whose own meetings are recorded.

Common Room: Is this only for developer tools companies?

It is strongest where there is a public community to observe. Companies with no community signal get a narrower version of the product and should compare it against ordinary intent data vendors.

Avoma: Does it replace my scheduling tool?

For most teams, yes. Group and round-robin booking arrive on the Organization tier; Startup includes 1:1 links only.

Common Room: Does it replace ZoomInfo?

No. It is signal and identity resolution rather than a contact database, though Prospector covers some contact discovery within accounts.

Avoma: Is it a Gong replacement?

Not at the enterprise end. Avoma covers the common conversation intelligence use cases at a fraction of the price but does not match Gong on deal analytics or coaching depth.

Common Room: How are AI features metered?

By credits per tier, from 5,000 RoomieAI credits on Essential up to 10,000 on Enterprise, with Prospector credits counted separately.

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